Fabulous Funnies Online

This cartoon featured several other short cartoons within it. It was hosted by Foozy and featured marginally beloved characters like Broom Hilda, The Katzenjammer Kids, Nancy and Sluggo. Oddly, Foozy's own Alley-Oop cartoon was seen less often. The cartoons usually featured a moral of some kind: things like being kind to animals, being responsible in school and in one case, using the Broom Hilda characters, alcoholism (seriously!)It was very tame and easy to take. Even as a kid, I was able to tell that the same voice actor was doing different characters in the same show, sometimes even in the same scene. Those who recall the Katzenjammer kids were probably surprised at how much tamer the pranks of the boys were and how little the Captain and the Inspector had to suffer when compared to earlier versions of the comic. In fact, it was probably a combination of the moral-themed storylines and the tameness which kept the kiddie viewers away. Unlike other 70s cartoon, it didn't have any real central figures to create a lasting impression and was quickly forgotten before the end of the same season in which it began.

Or I just discussed it so much online at one time.

As it stands now, I can barely recall who appeared in this venture.

Broom Hilda, Alley Oop, Katzenjammer, I recall, but Nancy and Emmy Lou are a bit vague here.

Perhaps it is because they appeared on the ARchie's TV Funhouse show several years earlier (that effort involved Dick Tracy and Smokey Stover) I remember Fabulous Funnies suffering the strange banishment to the end of Saturday morning, and for some equally odd reason, I recall watching this show and disliking it.

Two episodes that stood out to me were when Broom Hilda dealt with alcoholism (perhaps only carried off as voiced by June Foray. Anyone else would have bombed at it) and Alley Oop's episode dealing with death (the doctor tried to save a small pteradactyl, it died, so then he doubted his ability to heal and wouldn't tend to Alley's wife. Real cornball).

Again, it was only because of Foray that Broom Hilda's alcoholism episode worked.

Cartoons should really steer clear of subject matter like this (as has become evidenced on endless episodes of Simpsons, Family Guy, even that Lion family Pride thing with John Goodman) Tho Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids did tackle 'issues' they often managed to make it work (tho they did have their death episode as well, which utterly confused the boogars out of me as a kid).

The Broom Hilda drinking episode and the Alley Oop death episode both took up the entire show. No other cartoons were shown then.

I can only imagine what a full half hour of Nancy or Emmy lou would have involved.

Seems like this show had a catchy theme too.